Cartel Stability under Quality Differentiation
Autor: | Bos, Iwan, Marini, Marco |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Zdroj: | Economics Letters, 174, 70-73, 2019 |
Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.10.024 |
Popis: | This note considers cartel stability when the cartelized products are vertically differentiated. If market shares are maintained at pre-collusive levels, then the firm with the lowest competitive price-cost margin has the strongest incentive to deviate from the collusive agreement. The lowest-quality supplier has the tightest incentive constraint when the difference in unit production costs is sufficiently small. Comment: 17 pages, including 3 additional Appendices |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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